- nutritional polyneuropathy
- polyneuropathy due to nutritional deficits, as seen with beriberi, pellagra, alcoholism, malabsorption syndromes, Strachan syndrome, and other conditions. Cf. anemic p.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
nutritional polyneuropathy
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